Tim O'Reilly

Factories in Space Space economy - Making products for Earth and space

Seems like a good source on the state of the economy of the high frontier

"Introduction to in-space manufacturing, in-space economy and alternatively new space economy. Related fields include microgravity services, space resources, in-space transport ...

www.factoriesinspace.com

Bet on or Against the Unicorns Also the meme-stock revival, home insurance and tokenized crypto treasury companies.

Financial markets are increasingly just gambling. Why do their profits get capital gains treatment when there is no capital being provided to anyone producting anything. If we want investment in the real economy, this kind of stuff should be facing a pigovian tax. www.bloomberg.com/opinion/news...

Reading Abundance from China I organized a Chinese-language reading group for Abundance and we examined Ezra Klein and Derek Thompson's ideals through the lens of China

Super interesting : Reading Abundance from China. (via @noahpinion) afraw.substack.com/p/reading-ab...

Where Is AI on the Enshittification Curve? A Conversation with ChatGPT and Gemini About Job Losses from AI

Whether AI creates or destroys jobs depends on where companies are in the innovation cycle. This thought led me down a rabbit hole of talking with ChatGPT and Gemini about AI and enshittification.

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"More Slowly" Human Deep Learning in the Face of AI

And here's my own intro to the show that I reference above: www.oreilly.com/radar/more-s...

How to survive the apocalypse: a conversation with Tim O’Reilly about Generative AI Sunlight fire-hosed through my east facing window at 5:15 AM last Wednesday. I have learned, in my eleven Chicago years, to welcome this part of summer. I scraped up a pair of shorts, tromped downs…

Chelsea Troy's masterful expansion on our Live with Tim O'Reilly conversation, answering the questions we didn't get to, and saying more about the ones we did. She does it "more slowly" (as I put it in my intro to the show), so her points really stick the landing.

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Fast moving innovation gives the lie to the idea that AI will put programmers out of work. There's more to learn and do and create than ever. Send in your proposals!

Coding for the Future Agentic World

The @oreillymedia May online conference on the future of coding with AI was a huge success, so Addy Osmani and I are doing it again on September 9, with a focus on coding for agentic AI. www.oreilly.com/radar/coding...

Where do you get that idea? There is no such plan. Everything we do is designed to continue to compensate authors.

Chelsea's courses through the O'Reilly platform include Fundamentals of Technical Debt, Fundamentals of Machine Learning for Software Engineers, and Leveraging LLMs in Software Engineering. learning.oreilly.com/search/?q=ch...

Chelsea is absolutely the best at saying "wait a minute" and cutting through the hype on all things AI. We'll be talking tomorrow morning, June 18, at 8 am Pacific. We'll be taking questions from the audience starting approximately halfway through the one-hour event. I hope to see you tomorrow!

Chelsea Troy Live with Tim O’Reilly AI and developer productivity, how AI changes the job, and more

The second guest on my new show Live with Tim O'Reilly is the inimitable Chelsea Troy, who leads the machine learning operations team at Mozilla, teaches computer science at the University of Chicago, and through the O'Reilly platform.

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Building Secure Code in the Age of Vibe Coding: Steve Wilson Live with Tim O’Reilly Navigate the security minefield of AI-assisted development—before it’s too late

Really looking forward to chatting with Steve Wilson today at 11am ET/8am PT. Steve is both incredibly excited about the possibilities of AI but also deeply concerned about the new vulnerabilities and attack surfaces it opens up. Let's hear what to do about it.

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No, it means doing more, using humans augmented with AI to solve problems that were previously impossible, in ways that were previously unthinkable, and in ways that make our machine systems more attuned to the humans they are meant to serve.

The problems of integrating AI into our businesses, our lives, and our society are indeed complicated. But whether you call it “AI native” or “AI first,” it does not mean embracing the cult of “economic efficiency” that reduces humans to a cost to be eliminated.

AI First Puts Humans First

My latest post on @OReillyMedia. Many Silicon Valley investors and entrepreneurs even seem to view putting people out of work as a massive opportunity. That idea is anathema to me. It’s also wrong, both morally and practically.

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I'm really looking forward to this. Steve has some very spicy things to say about the security or lack thereof of the leading AI models and applications built around them. I'm looking forward to having him get very specific about his concerns.

The trailer for "Python, the Documentary" is here! 🔥🐍

From its humble beginnings in the Netherlands to powering AI at the world’s biggest companies - this is the story of Python.

🎥 The film premiers at @europython.eu in July and will follow on our YouTube channel.

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Media isn't dead. It's on Substack

So many ads try to persuade the gullible of things that are false or overblown. A great ad says something that those in the know immediately recognize as true, and that others haven't yet discovered or thought about. This is a great ad. Kudos to Substack and its ad agency.

Some money quotes illustrating the range of perspectives: @kentbeck.com - "it reawakened the joy of programming," Chelsea Troy - "On relatively simple problems, we can get away with outsourcing some of our judgment. As the problems become more complicated, we can't."

Takeaways from Coding with AI

Last week, we held our first AI CodeCon, a four hour deep dive into the pros and cons of coding with AI, as well as people sharing their AI coding workflows and favorite tools. Here are some of my takeaways, www.oreilly.com/radar/takeaw...

BM7 index vs S&P after Deepseek announcement

Eye-popping graph from Adam Tooze confirms what we all knew: "Trump tariff uncertainty has been bad for US equity markets, but for the Mag7 the break came with DeepSeek." The AI investment boom turned into a bubble overnight as soon as DeepSeek demolished the promise of monopoly profits for AI.

And it’s dissatisfaction with the state of AI discourse that is motivating my latest venture (a nonprofit this time!), the Golden Gate Institute for AI. What am I so dissatisfied about? It’s Impossible To Make Sense of What’s Being Written About AI."

Steve opens: "I once heard Jeff Bezos say that an entrepreneur is someone who’s never satisfied. That’s been the story of my career....

Announcing The Golden Gate Institute for AI And why "Am I Stronger Yet?" is now "Second Thoughts"

@stevenewman.bsky.social's new Golden Gate Institute for AI is sorely needed.

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Chartbook 383 World Economy Now. May 2025. Putting Trump's trade tantrum in its place. Where is the world economy now?

Just like AI, humans are shaped by the context we start with. If you care about the global economy and the future, @adamtooze.bsky.social's substack is a great thing to load into your context. Here's his explainer on trade and its place in the global economy.

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"Without new internet protocols to facilitate attribution and payment to content creators online, and without AI companies investing in these new business models, AI content online might explode, but human content might die."

"It’s in everyone’s interest to start contending with the new economic reality of the internet under attack from AI services. These statistics [recently shared by Cloudflare CEO Matthew Prince] highlight just how quickly it’s changing."

Is the Internet's Business Model Finally Bust? (Weekly Roundup) Weekly Roundup 7 May, 2025: Matthew Prince makes a splash, OpenAI juices its benchmarks, 4o sycophant shows the need for post-deployment monitoring of behavioral risks, and more.

Important post by my colleagues at SSRC, Isobel Moure and Ilan Strauss:

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"While #AI can assist in programming, a foundational understanding of #programming concepts is still required to effectively utilize these tools," @timoreilly.bsky.social y.bsky.social said: cacm.acm.org/news/catchin... #VibeCoding